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Maya had seen it happen. A junior admin, desperate, grabbing a "pre-activated" ISO from a shady forum. Ransomware within a week. The entire SAN encrypted. No thanks.
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She built the domain controller in twenty minutes. Promoted it. Tested replication. Everything green.
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